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• Major new work by a leading historical sociologist
• Challenges the prevailing idea of nationalism as a product of modernity
• Demonstrates that different political forms of community and collective identity from pre-modern times have contributed to the formation and character of nations
• Analyzes the chronology and nature of nations, from the ancient world, to the European Middle Ages, the early modern, and the modern eras
• Discusses...

Fran?ois Laruelle's ?non-philosophy? or ?non-standard philosophy? represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge. There is a growing interest in Laruelle's work in the English-speaking world, but his work is often misunderstood as a wholesale critique of philosophy. In this book Anthony Paul Smith dispels this misunderstanding and shows how Laruelle's critique of philosophy is guided by the positive aim of understanding philosophy's structure so that it can be creatively recast with other discourses and domains of human knowledge,...

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Anthony D. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics, and is considered one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of nationalism studies. Anthony Smith has developed an approach to the study of nations and nationalism called ethno-symbolism, which is concerned with the nature of ethnic groups and nations, and the need to consider their symbolic dimensions.

This text provides a concise statement of an ethno-symbolic approach to the study of nations and nationalism and at the same time, embodies a general statement of...

Seeking to do justice to these different facets of nationalism, the second edition of this popular and respected overview has been revised and updated with contemporary developments and the latest scholarly work. It aims to...

• Major new work by a leading historical sociologist
• Challenges the prevailing idea of nationalism as a product of modernity
• Demonstrates that different political forms of community and collective identity from pre-modern times have contributed to the formation and character of nations
• Analyzes the chronology and nature of nations, from the ancient world, to the European Middle Ages, the early modern, and the modern eras
• Discusses...

Fran?ois Laruelle's ?non-philosophy? or ?non-standard philosophy? represents a bold attempt to rethink how philosophy is practiced in relation to other domains of knowledge. There is a growing interest in Laruelle's work in the English-speaking world, but his work is often misunderstood as a wholesale critique of philosophy. In this book Anthony Paul Smith dispels this misunderstanding and shows how Laruelle's critique of philosophy is guided by the positive aim of understanding philosophy's structure so that it can be creatively recast with other discourses and domains of human knowledge,...

Welcome to Blood Haven. Magic has returned, reshaping the modern world. Unfortunately, it's not all love potions and broomsticks. A thirst for power has awoken; only the strong will prevail. Killian is just trying to survive in this frightening new world, and it is not easy. His mentor is killed, his best friend steals the woman he loves, and, to top it all off, he is tricked into looking after Lucas, a boy who has been kept in a cage his whole life. Killian soon realizes Lucas is more powerful than anyone...and people are after him. To save them both, Killian must unravel the mystery of...

In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and others, he argues that there are three key issues which have shaped debates in this field: first, the nature and origin of nations and nationalism; second, the antiquity or modernity of nations and nationalism; and third, the role of nations and nationalism in historical, and especially recent, social change.

Anthony Smith...